This is a vegetarian pizza that doesn't need a name like Guenevere's Garden, Veggie Medley or Southeast Engine Delight to lure you from it's carnivorous cousins. And, it's not soggy like many veggie pizzas. The key to success is enough corn meal on the pizza peel to enable the movement of the dough and some architectural savvy to manage a cascade of olives and cheese when transferring the pizza to the stone. Like constructing a city on land fill, this could be added to your resume if applying for Civil Engineering jobs.
Above: 10 oz. bag of spinach, you can do better if you have a garden, jar of homemade pesto, kalamata olives without pits (you can use olives with pits if you warn people), block of feta (check the per/pound price as sometimes crumbled feta is actually cheaper than blocks).
Ingredients
1 pkg (10 ounces) fresh spinach
1 block feta - crumble up at least a cup.
Pesto (fresh or a jar) - you'll probably use about a half cup
Kalamata olives - at least a cup
Process
Make the Pizzer Dough and shape a 14" pizza on your pizza peel COVERED WITH A HEALTHY LAYER OF CORN MEAL or, learn the hard way.
Spread a couple of big globs of pesto across the surface of the dough. I used twice what's pictured here. It doesn't need to be a solid floor of pesto but you can get away with more pesto than tomato sauce because it's not watery.
Chop up the spinach into chunks and pile that over the pesto. This is a spinach mountain to which my photo does no justice. You should be afraid when you imagine trying to move it.
Ready the feta.
Sprinkle the crumbled cheese over the spinach hill and then add olives. Haaaaah!. You probably just did this and half the olives ended up on the floor. Wipe them off and place them one at a time in cozy little spinach pockets so they have a chance of staying part of the monument when the big move happens.
Heavily laden, unstable and ready to launch.
Give the pizza a little jolt to confirm that you have movement - stay below Richter 3.0. You can go higher if your building structure is sound. If not, make a Calzone.
Above: small fallout (1 spinach leave, two feta crumbles) after a successful jolt event.
Above: Disinterested, unhygienic onlooker against a backdrop of rotting parsley and never used garlic chives cannibalizing a leg bone of similar genus.
Pizza slid into the oven. If you end up with a few crumbs of feta on the stone, I'd suggest brushing them off with a tool. Don't be stupid and think you can pick them off quickly with your hands (like I did).
When the crust is golden, pull it out -- this task is much easier as the spinach has sagged and the feta has welded the olives in place.
Final result.
